marginal utility annex
An annex to my writing elsewhere.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Alice Marwick's "Status Update" (chapters 1-4)
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From Alice Marwick's dissertation,"STATUS UPDATE: CELEBRITY, PUBLICITY AND SELF-BRANDING IN WEB 2.0." ( pdf ) As the title mak...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Commons as contentless
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From an essay by Evan Calder Williams called "A Fire to the Commons," a critique of (among other things) "the thought that ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
China and industrial policy
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From this post at Naked Capitalism, about a paper ( pdf ) by Andrew Haldane and Richard Davies of the Bank of England. They find that myopi...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Reality TV and social media
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I was excited to see that Kelefa Sanneh's review article on Reality TV books in the New Yorker cites Mark Andrejevic, whose work I had...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Paolo Virno's "Notes on the 'General Intellect' "
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In Marxism Beyond Marxism, Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino, Rebecca Karl, Eds. Virno ruminates over the significance of Marx's Fragmen...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Responsibilization
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Not the most euphonious word, but gets at a key aspect of neoliberal subjectivity -- getting people to recognize risk throughout everyday li...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Surveillance and the shop window
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Another social media surveillance paper, "Deconstructing Bentham’s Panopticon: The New Metaphors of Surveillance in the Web 2.0 Enviro...
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